Getting Started with Home Assistant 2021 - All you need is a Raspberry Pi

Mon, 20 Dec 2021 01:55:51 +0000

Have you wanted to get started with Home Assistant? Well, this week's video is a simple guide on how to set up a Raspberry Pi 4 as your Home Assistant system. This should be an easy-to-follow guide.

Bonus: I also show you how to set up three Home Assistant add-ons to enhance your experience.

To access your local home assistant instance: http://homeassistant.local:8123

Feel free to use the timestamps to jump to the relevant section.

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▶ Timestamps ⌚:
00:00:00 - Opening
00:00:09 - Logo
00:00:20 - Introduction
00:01:34 - Part 1: What is HA?
00:03:46 - Part #2: Getting Started
00:05:39 - Part 3: Flash SD
00:09:50 - Part 4: Setting up Home Assistant
00:11:32 - Part 5: Suggested Add-ons
00:12:42 - Part 5.1: Duck DNS
00:15:31 - Part 5.2: Let's Encrypt
00:17:36 - Part 5.3 - SAMBA
00:20:31 - Outro

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Local Home Assistant Instance: http://homeassistant.local:8123

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